The Deepest Dye : : Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World /

The Deepest Dye : : Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World / / Aisha Khan.

How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Khan, Aisha,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY
  • 1 A PARALLAX VIEW
  • 2 PLANTATIONS AND CLIMATES OF CRISIS
  • 3 THE PERFORMANCE OF SHADOWS
  • 4 THE TRIALS OF OBEAH TODAY
  • 5 THE SPIRIT OF HOSAY TODAY
  • 6 IDENTIFICATIONS
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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